The Steelers took a beat down in Baltimore last night, basically getting whipped up\u00a0by the Ravens on all facets of the game. With a chance to\u00a0go 2-0 and put the\u00a0Ravens\u00a0on\u00a0their backs\u00a0in the AFC North, they played miserably in a 26-6 loss.<\/p>\n
It was an overall terrible night for the dreadful offense. Ben Roethlisberger was off and his performance was uneven at best. He missed several critical throws and never seemed to find his rhythm. The Steelers actually moved the ball but made several critical mistakes, including Justin Brown and Heath Miller fumbling. The offensive line struggled in protection at times, with Elvis Dumerville punishing Marcus Gilbert.<\/p>\n
The defense had a rough night as well. The secondary is struggling and continues to absorb critical penalties. They racked up five of the nine penalties all of which were\u00a0awful and led to scoring. The linebackers had flashes but Flacco had all day in the pocket. There was no push\u00a0at all and while he was unspectacular he made the plays.\u00a0The Steelers front seven while better this week against the run, continues to get gashed.<\/p>\n
The mainstream media is saying the defense is too old and slow. That is completely short sighted if you watch the film. For the first time since I can remember, the Steelers are struggling to tackle they had\u00a0several opportunities last night but couldn’t make the plays. As for being to old, Ike Taylor and Troy are\u00a0certainly long in the tooth but nine of the\u00a011 starters are now under 30 years old.\u00a0Brett Keisel is playing a valuable supporting role but the Steelers have limited his exposure. The issue is the tackling and the front three eating\u00a0up blockers.<\/p>\n
Special Teams played fairly well. The coverage units did okay against Jacoby Jones. \u00a0Brad Wing had a good night for the most part and Suisham made the kicks he needed to. This has been the only\u00a0consistent bright spot.<\/p>\n
What is encouraging is that Le’Veon Bell, Markus\u00a0Wheaton\u00a0and Antonio Brown all continue to play at a high consistent level.<\/p>\n
BEER WE GO STEELERS, BEER WE GO<\/p>\n
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My \u201cGAME BEER\u201d goes to<\/strong>:\u00a0I thought about not giving one out, because the game was that lousy. In the end it goes to Antonio Brown who proved not only is he an awesome receiver he is pretty damn tough. Le’Veon Bell looks fantastic in the early going.<\/p>\n Where I watched the game: <\/strong>Buckley’s Irish Pub in my home town, KGB and I met some friends, KGB Drank Sam Adams, Octoberfest, I had Guinness and we munched on boneless wings Asian style. The cook at Buckley’s Josh, is a Bengals fan but he sure can cook.<\/p>\n My Stat of the week: <\/strong>NINE POINTS in Six Quarters of football. You could have had the Steel Curtain and the ’85 Bears out there and you wouldn’t have won with that output.<\/p>\n My thoughts on Next Week: <\/strong>The Steelers have nine days to fix their issues. They stay in prime time battling the Panthers. It is too close to call right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Steelers took a beat down in Baltimore last night, basically getting whipped up\u00a0by the Ravens on all facets of the game. With a chance to\u00a0go 2-0 and put the\u00a0Ravens\u00a0on\u00a0their backs\u00a0in the AFC North, they played miserably in a 26-6 loss. It was an overall terrible night for the dreadful offense. Ben Roethlisberger was off […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bwg-gr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1602"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1604,"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602\/revisions\/1604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}